The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-26

north IN the winters inclenency. Arrest
that man who is making that one horse
draw load heavy enough for three. Rush
in upon that scene where boys are torturing
a cat, or transdxing butterfly and grasshop-
per- Drive not Off that old robin,
for her nest is mothers
cradle and unde- her wing there may he
three or four prima donnas of the sky i'll
training. And in your families and in your
schools teach the coming generation more
mercy than the prevent generation has ever
shown and in this marvellous Bible picture
OF the nativity, while you point out to them
the angel, show them also the camel, and
while they hear the celestial chant let them
also hear the cows moan. No more did
Christ show interest in the botanical world
when be said, "Consider the lilies" than he
showed sympathy for the crnithological
when he said, Behold the fowls of the air, 4"
and the quadrupedal world when he allowed
himself to be called in one place a lion and
in another place a lamb. Meanwhile, may
the Christ OF the Bethlehem cattle pen have
mercy on the suffering stock yards that are
preparing diseased and fevered meat for our
American households
Behold also in this Bible scene how on
that Christmas night God honored child.
hood. Christ might have made his first
visit to our world in a cloud, as he will de-
sceud on has next visit in cloud. In what
q chariot of illumined vapor he might have
rolled down the sky escorted by mounted
cavalry with Lightning of drawn sword.
Elijah had a carriage of fire to take him up,
wl1 not Jesus carriage of fire to fetch
him down' Or, over the arched bridge Of
a rainbow the Lord might have descended.
Or Christ might have had his mortality
built up or earth out of the dust of gar
den, as was Adam, in full manhood at the
start without the Introductory feeblenc ss
of infancy. No, Mo- Childhood was to be
honored by that advent. He must have a
child's light limbs, and a child's dinpled
hand. and a child's beaming eye, and
childs haxen hair, AMI babyhoo1 was to be
honored for all time to come, and cradle
was TO mean more than grave. Mighty
God! May the reflection of that one child's
face be seen in all infantie faces. Enough
have all those fathers and mothers on hand
II they have child in the house. A throne,
a crown, "A sceptre, a kingdom under charge.
Be careful how you strike him across the
head, jarring the brain. What you say to
him will be centennial and millenial, and
hundred years and thousand years will
not stop the echo and re-echo. Do not
say: ''I5 is only child" Rather say: "lt
is only an immortal" It is only a master
piece of Jehovah. 1t is only being that
shall outlive sun and moon and star, and
ages quadrillenia.. God has infinite re-
sources, and he can give presents of great
value, but when he wants TO give the richest
possible gift to household he looks around
all the worlds and all the universe, and then
gives child. The greatest present that
God ever gave our world he gave about
1887 years ago, aud he gave it on Christ
mas night, and it was of such value that
heaven adjourned for recess
and came down and broke
through the clouds TO look at
1t. Yea, In all ages God has honored ch Id
hood. He makes almost every picture a
failure unless there is a child either playing
on the floor, or looking through the window,
or seated on the lap gazing into the face of
its mother. 1t was child in Naaman's
kitchen that told the great Syrian warrior
wnere he might 60 and get cured of the
leprosy, which, at his seventh plunge in the
Jordan, was left at the bottom of the river
1t was to the cradle Of leaves in which a
child was laid, rocked by the Nile, that God
called the attention of history. 1t was a
sick, child that evoked Christ's curative
sympathies 1t was child that Christ set
in the midst Of the squabbling disciples to
teach the lesson of humility. We are in-
formed that wolf and leopard and lion
shall be yet so donesticated that little child
shall lead them. A child decided Waterloo,
showing the army of Blucher how they
COuiQ Iub bulOuhG tlo lGiis
when, if the old road had been followed, the
Prussian General would have come up too
late to save the destinies of Europe. twas
a child that decided Gettysburg be having
overheard two Confederate Generals in a
conversation in which they decided TO march
for Gettysburg instead OF Harrisburg. and
this, reported to Gov Curtin, the Federal
forces started TO meet their opponents at
Gettysburg. And the child of to-day is &c
4 l. a.
laws, settle all the destinies and usher in the
worlds salvation or destruction. Men,
women, nations, all earth and all heaven,
behold the child! Is there any velvet so soft
as child's cheeki Is there any sky so blue
as a child's eyel Is there any music SO sweet
as the childs voice! Is there any plume so
wavy as child's hairl
Notice also that in this Bible night scene
God honored science. Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the divine infant9
Not Doors. not ignoramuses, but Caspar,
B lthasar and Melchoir, men who knew all
that was TO be known. They were the Isaac
Newtons and Herschels and Faradays of
their time Their alchemy was the forerun-
ner of our sublime chemistry. their astrol-
ogy the mother of our magnificent astron-
oIrly They had studied stars, studied met
ais, studied physiology, studied everything.
And when see these scientists bowling be
fore the beautiful babe, see the prophecy
of the time when all the telescopes and mi
croscopes, and all the Leyden jars, and all the
electric batteries and all the observatories,
aud all the universities shall bow to Jesus.
1t is much that way already. Where is the
college that does not have morning prayers,
thus bowling at the mangerl Who have
been the greatest physicians Omit
ting the names of the living, lest
we should be invidious have we
not had among them Christian men like
our own Joseph G.. Hutchinson, and Rush,
and Valentine Mott, and Abercrombe, and
Abernethyi Who have been our greatest
scientistsi Joseph Henry, who lived and
died in the faith of the Gospel, and Agassiz
who, standing With his students among the
hills, took off his hat and said, Young
gentlemen, before we study these rocks let
us pray for wisdom to the God who made
the rocks" To-day the greatest doctors
and lawyers Of Brooklyn and New York,
and OF all this land, and OF all lands, revere
the Christian religion, and are not ashamed
to say so before juries and Legislatures and
Senates. All geology will yet bow before
the Rock Of Ages All botany will yet
worship the Rose of Sharon. All astro-
nony will yet recognize the Star of
Bethlehem. Aud physiology and anatomy
viii join hands and say: We must by the
help of God get the human race up 10 the
perfect nerve, and perfect muscle, and per-
feet brain. and perfect form Of that perfect
child before whom nigh twenty hundred
years ago Caspar, and Belthasar, and
Melchior bent their tired knees in worship
Behold also in that first Christmas night
that God honored tho fields. Come in